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On the flip side, companies are increasing their investment in training, upskilling and professional development. After all, with more than 50 million Americans quitting their job over the past year, employers have been forced to promote from within. Its in an organizations best interest to provide good, proactive training so its own staff doesnt stagnate, Glass says. People are thirsty for learning new things. If theyre not going to get those things from your company, maybe theyll go somewhere else.

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Glass, a member of the Forbes HR Council, has a passion for education, graduating magna cum laude from The University of Texas at Dallas with a masters in computer science. A former lecturer at the school, he taught courses in assembly language, UNIX and C, C++, Smalltalk, and programming languages. For more than 30 years, hes used his technical mastery and entrepreneurial spirit to launch training companies and tech firms. He also owns 15 patents, all in the field of distributed computing.

In 2006, Glass founded Cypher Learning, which sells three branded versions of the cloud-hosted learning platform: NEO for schools and universities, MATRIX for businesses and INDIE for entrepreneurs. Earlier this month, the company rebranded with a new visual identity, a consolidated website and an evolution to an intelligent learning platform (ILP). The first set of intelligent features are related to skill development and include the following:

Glass predicts AI-infused learning platforms are going to be a decade-long trend, at a minimum. By adding more intelligence into learning technology, organizations can better meet the needs of todays learners and step into the future, Glass says. Our platform takes the learning experiences to a new level by focusing on the individual learner and how to drive their learning growth.

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'Everyone needs to raise their game in terms of how they train' - HRD America